Visa requirements for Surinamese citizens

Surinamese citizens need a Schengen visa, which covers all member states for up to 90 days in any 180-day period.

Of the 198 countries whose entry rules are known in both directions, Suriname and 61 of them let each other’s citizens in without a visa obtained in advance (visa-free, on arrival or with an ETA; an e-visa counts as a visa).

115 countries ask holders of the Surinamese passport for a visa beforehand, although their own citizens enter Suriname without one: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Armenia, Australia and 110 others.

The reverse holds for 9 countries: holders of the Surinamese passport get in without a visa obtained in advance, but their citizens need one for Suriname (Angola, Bangladesh, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Haiti and 4 others).

82 countries ask holders of the Surinamese passport for a visa obtained before travel from an embassy, a consulate or a visa centre. 5 of them have an embassy or consulate on record in Suriname.

77 countries have no embassy or career consulate on record in Suriname, so the application usually goes to one of their posts in another country. Counting the post an official diplomatic list names for Suriname, or else the nearest one within 2,000 km, those posts are most often in Guyana (4), Trinidad and Tobago (4) and Venezuela (4).

The United States refused 14% of visitor-visa (B1/B2) applications from citizens of Suriname in fiscal year 2025, by the State Department’s adjusted refusal rate. 46 of the 197 nationalities with a published rate had a lower one and 150 a higher one; the middle value was 32%.

Schengen consulates in Suriname refused 12% of short-stay visa applications in 2025 (all Schengen consulates worldwide: 15%). Among the 74 countries where they received at least 10,000 applications, that is the 48th highest rate. The figure counts every nationality applying there, not only citizens.

Visa-free travel with the Surinamese passport

By continent, the Surinamese passport is visa-free in 19 countries in the Americas, 8 countries in Asia, 4 countries in Africa, 2 countries in Europe and 2 countries in Oceania. The longest visa-free stays for Surinamese citizens are allowed in Antigua and Barbuda (180 days), Barbados (180 days), Dominica (180 days), Guyana (180 days), Peru (180 days) and Argentina (90 days).

Visa on arrival

Surinamese citizens can get a visa at the airport or land border of Bahrain, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, the Comoros, Djibouti and 24 others.

E-Visa and electronic travel authorisation

An e-Visa, applied for online before the trip, is how Surinamese citizens enter Albania, Armenia, Australia, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana and 39 others. Israel, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Saint Kitts and Nevis and South Korea ask instead for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA), a lighter online check than a visa.

Suriname’s neighbours

Guyana and Brazil admit Surinamese citizens without a visa.

How the passport compares

Among neighbouring passports, the Brazilian passport ranks 44th (150 destinations) and the Guyanese passport ranks 105th (83 destinations). Of the 198 passports in the data, 21 can enter visa-free, 155 need an ETA, 21 need an e-Visa and 1 is not admitted for Suriname.